Jean 'Binta' Breeze

Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze is a poet, actress, dancer, choreographer, film writer and theatre director. Her Bloodaxe collections include Third World Girl: Selected Poems (2011) and The Fifth Figure (2006). She has performed her work all over the world, and now divides her time between Jamaica and Leicester. She received a NESTA Award in 2003, joined Michael Symmons Roberts on the judging panel for the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 2007, and performed at the Glastonbury Festival in 2010.